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the steeple; ^oljianllrfuitt, the church-yard. The remaining rooms of an abbeystood at a distance from the main structure, and were as follow:
©Itcmosrmau'a, the almonry, vulgarly the ambry, a building near or within theabbey, wherein poor and impotent persons were relieved, and maintained by thecharity of the house.
Sbanttuartum, or the sanctuary, wherein debtors, taking refuge from theircreditors, malefactors from the judge, lived all in security.
At a distance stood the ^fetabltS, which were under the care and management ofthe Stallarius, or master of the horse, and the Provendarius, who, as his nameimports, laid in provender for the horses: these were of four kinds; namely, l.Manni, geldings for the saddle of the larger size; 2. Runcini, runts, small nags;3. Summarii, sumpter-horses; 4. Averii, cart or plough-horses.
Besides the buildings above mentioned, there was a prison for incorrigible monks.The ordinary punishment for small offences was carrying the lantern; but con-tumacious monks were by the abbot committed to prison.
Other buildings there were, such as TTacttStCUUm, the cow-house, ^orcarium, theswine-sty, Sic.
(ffirangtS were farms at a distance, sometimes of several miles, kept stocked bythe abbey, and so called “ a grano gerendo.” #
Page 5.—The following list of apartments and offices, copied from Mr.Gage’s History of Hengrave, will give some idea of the arrangementof houses in the sixteenth century.
“ The inventories speak of the following apartments and offices in this order.
“ ‘ The chiefe, or queen’s chamber; y e inner chamber to y® cheife chamber; y® uppergarrett to y® same; y e chamber next to y® great chamber; Mr. Payne’s chamber; y*chapell chamber; y' closett to y' chapelt; y' chamber of y e gate; y' inner chamberto y e same; Sir Thomas Cornwalleis his chamber; y e inner chamber to y' saydchamber; y* little chamber next this before; y e chamber over y' winter purler; y einner chamber to y" aforesayd chamber; y® gallery by thes chamber; y* payntedchamber; y® inner chamber to y® same; y® longe gallerye over y e dyning chamber;my Ladye of Bathon her chamber; y e inner chamber to y® aforesaide chamber; y®prospect chamber; y® chamber under y® prospect chamber; my Ladye Kytson herchamber; y® inner chamber to y® aforesaid ; y® nurserye; y® mayd’s chamber ; y® littleclosett next to my La. Kytson’s chamber; y® bathing chamber; y® entrye by my